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Definition of Common good
1. Noun. The good of a community.
Definition of Common good
1. Noun. the general interest of the population as a whole. ¹
2. Noun. (economics) a good that is rivalrous and non-excludable ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Good
Literary usage of Common good
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Swiss family Robinson by Johann David Wyss (1883)
"... to fetch a few specimens of these oysters in time for our next meal,'' said
I : " we must all exert ourselves, Ernest, for the common good, ..."
2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"... general good has often been taken as the ethical ideal for man's conduct, eg
by Cumberland (De Leg. fat., 1672), under the name ' the common good of all ..."
3. Christianizing the Social Order by Walter Rauschenbusch (1912)
"CHAPTER V PRIVATE INTERESTS AGAINST THE common good SELFISHNESS and the social
spirit both belong to the makeup of human nature. Egoism is the original warp ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"150 But fince for common good I yield the fair, My private lofs let grateful
Greece repair ; Nor unrewarded let your prince complain, That he alone has ..."
5. Lectures on the Ethics of T.H. Green, Mr. Herbert Spencer, and J. Martineau by Henry Sidgwick (1902)
"Taking the notion of a common good or wellbeing as we find it historically in
the development of society, and granting that the conception of a common ..."
6. The Principles of the Law of Scotland: In the Order of Sir G. Mackenzie's by John Erskine, George Mackenzie (1827)
"An Act for regulating the mode of accounting for the Common ' Good and ...
A particular account of the common good and revenues of every royal burgh of ..."
7. Individualism: Four Lectures on the Significance of Consciousness for Social by Warner Fite (1911)
"Our aim is not to make the common good our own, but to make our own good a social
possibility. A problem which seeks this result is a problem of technical ..."
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